From Haight to Love: Renaming an Alameda Elementary School in an Era of Racial Reckoning
On Dec. 5, 1867, California Governor Henry Huntly Haight used his inaugural speech to rail against the citizenship and voting rights of formerly enslaved Africans, Native Americans, and to oppose immigration from Asia. On December 5, 2017, 150 years later, Rasheed Shabazz contacted the Haight Elementary School PTA and encouraged them to initiate the process ... Read moreFrom Haight to Love: Renaming an Alameda Elementary School in an Era of Racial Reckoning